Language Artifacts

Examples of the types of items we will tweet about at Language_Today and discuss with regard to language, literacy, & culture:

Videos

Voices of NC Excerpt on African-American English

Resources

- Language Diversity and the Public Interest (pdf) by Walt Wolfram
(This gives a good overview and mentions some good resources for teachers, including information on the Voices of North Carolina 8th grade curriculum, which is accessable here.)

Words of the Year

- American Dialect Society 2010 Word of the Year: App

- Oxford 2010 Word of the Year: Refudiate

- American Dialect Society 2009 Word of Year and Word of the Decade: Tweet (2009); Google (2000-2010)

- Oxford 2009 Word of the Year: Unfriend

- Oxford 2008 Word of the Year: Hypermiling

- Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2008: Bailout

Issues, Articles, Debates, Happenings, Observations, Etc.

- Romney comments irk Palestinians, July 30, 2012

- University of Oxford calls for dropping the Oxford Comma, June 30, 2011

- Bilingual Advantage, NYT Science, May 30, 2011

- Birders Compare Regional Bird Facts, Dialects, May 2011

- Why It Is Beneficial to Study a Foreign Language, Literacy News, 2010

- Do Children Understand Irony? New Study Reveals They Do, Science Daily, Sept. 15, 2010

- Newborns Cry in Different Languages, Science News, 2009

- Debating the Language of Texting, NCCU Campus, January 16, 2008

- English Period (English only classes), Boston Globe, 9-25-08

- Measure 58, English Only, The Oregonian, 9-20-08

- Johnston County Sheriff Apology for Inappropriate Comments, 9-8-08

- LPGA English Only Policy Draws Criticism, 8-29-08

- Golf.com: LPGA's English-only policy is unsportsmanlike and un-American, 8-26-08

- Yiddish Survey - How Americans use Jewish-influenced words, 8-19-08

- PBS News Story “Reading Matters” (1997) (Ebonics Controversy)